Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Did you watch the finale of RuPaul's Drag Race earlier this week? For the final challenge they had to do a catsuit clad catfight and a music video "scene" with RuPaul straight outta 80s era Dynasty. I fully expected the series outcome but I was still disappointed. Scary/beautiful Raven was robbed. She was great all season long but for the finale challenge she was the only contestant who understood and nailed the 80s.

I believe this is the first time in the history of the English language that anyone has said "I'm channelling Kelly LeBrock." Or at least the first time anyone's thought of doing so since the mid 80s when LeBrock had her flash-in-the-pan as the ideal female in The Woman in Red (1984) and Weird Science (1985).

By the time they got to the music video challenge, Raven had a loftier icon in mind.

"I was giving Michelle Pfeiffer, bitch.I was looking at myself in the mirror.I was looking f***ing good."___-Raven on RuPaul's Drag Race

I knew there was a reason I loved Raven best. I get his meaning but I love that you can punctuate the sentence either way: comma bitch to address the audience or capital B Bitch as in the name of said Look... 'giving Michelle Pfeiffer Bitch.' When staring at the mirror with 80s hauteur cool one could conceivably say one was 'giving Michelle Pfeiffer Bitch' and be fully understood.

13 comments:

Raven was indeed the most talented by far. But she was so mean throughout the show, especially toward Tatianna, that I felt a bit of schadenfreude in her not winning. And Tyra is pretty gorgeous, so I wasn't too sorry.

Tyra looks great in drag but i fail to see how she's an original at all. They keep saying they want uniqueness but they keep comparing Tyra to Tyra "the other tyra" and Tyra keeps comparing herself to Beyonce.

i was trying so hard to avoid hearing who won so i could watch it later, but it was posted everywhere! lol. i had no idea it was so popular!

anyways, i love Michelle in Scarface. My favorite scene is near the end of the movie at the restaurant and she whispers-screams "you son of a bitch!" and then just explodes from there. you can't stop watching her in that scene.

Sean -- i get that people feel that way about Raven but i like the fierce bitches so long as they speak the truth. and i loved Pandora too. I don't see why the judges were so hard on her and so forgiving of Tyra's problems. weirdness.